Nervously negotiating a relationship next door. They took the lead only in military and diplomatic fathers, hong kong was going to remain what it has always been, a home to freewheeling capitalism, with law and currency, and now the young people filling the streets are testing just how much dissent hong kongs government and the government in beijing are willing to tolerate. Protests in hong kong are not unusual. But this is different. And may be dangerous. Police fired volleys of teargas in the thousands on sunday, and what authorities said are necessary but restrained response. Demonstrators used umbrellas and goggles to protect themselves and vowed to keep up the pressure. Well, its very encouraging that so many people tal took toe streets today to demand democracy, and many people chanted the slogan, went true democracy, and its exactly the movement. And were very happy to see what happened today. These demonstrations are all about elections to be held in three years, and chinas ass
It to china, hong kong has been nervously negotiating a relationship next door. They took the lead only in military and diplomatic fathers, hong kong was going to remain what it has always been, a home to freewheeling capitalism, with law and currency, and now the young people filling the streets are testing just how much dissent hong kongs government and the government in beijing are willing to tolerate. Protests in hong kong are not unusual. But this is different. And may be dangerous. Police fired volleys of teargas in the thousands on sunday, and what authorities said are necessary but restrained response. Demonstrators used umbrellas and goggles to protect themselves and vowed to keep up the pressure. Well, its very encouraging that so many people tal took to the streets today to demand democracy, and many people chanted the slogan, went true democracy, and its exactly the movement. And were very happy to see what happened today. These demonstrations are all about elections to be
Thats jimmy fallon taking a gratuitous shot at his hometown mayor. With willie and me we have katty kay. And contributor Mike Barnicle. Nationals affair analyst for msnbc and nbc, John Heilemann. Political analyst and former chairman of the Republican National committee, michael steele. Also with us, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. And willie of course, the top story this morning, still a lot of people talking about Jeffrey Epstein and as we said on the show yesterday, this is the outrage actually is a bipartisan outrage. It is red state outrage and it is blue state outrage with a question being how in the world was this guy left alone in his cell . As the attorney general said yesterday its shocking the number of procedures that werent followed for a guy that had to be considered, right, the most valuable prisoner in america. It becomes more jaw dropping the more details we hear about how it hap
Theres a lot to cover including the bruising day on wall street. Now theres growing concerns over a potential recession. Plus china with two big stories. They are still consuming hong kong and the trade war with washington. And congressman steve king managing to offend just about everything with his comments on abortion, rape, and incest. Well get the latest reaction from capitol hill with some republicans calling for him to resign. But, we begin with a developing story out of philadelphia. An armed suspect accused of opening fire and wounding six officers during an eighthour standoff has surrendered early this morning. Shortly after midnight a Police Spokesman tweeted that a suspect was in custody and that s. W. A. T. Officers were clearing the house where the standoff took place. Police on the scene said the suspect surrendered without incident and was taken to a hospital for treatment because teargas was used. The gunfire began wednesday afternoon as police were serving a narcotics